Editorial photo #1009057 Health

In Brazil increases risk of Zika virus and Chikungunya

Rio de Janeiro, 20th January 2016: Summer in Brazil is very rainy and it greatly increases the risk of aedes aegypti breeding of mosquito, transmitter of diseases as the Zika virus, the Chikungunya Fever and Dengue. In Rio de Janeiro rains for nearly a week and in many parts of the city are formed lakes with true rain water that gets accumulated and enables playback of aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Photo of a football field in Marechal Hermes district, north of Rio, which turned into a lake with rainwater. (Photo by Luiz Souza/NurPhoto)